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To: petitfour

This case brings up another serious issue about the direction law enforcement has taken in this country over the last couple of decades.

We now have local police departments that have departments operating as paramilitary organizations. These paramilitary organizations are into a lot of local law enforcement operations where they do not belong. And they get a lot of latitude in how they behave.

Essentially, our police are morphing into paramilitary organizations. Certainly not what our Constitution intended. And most certainly, something that ought to be a very loud wake up call to the general population. Which it is apparently not.

How long before most of us (with any sense) fear “law enforcement” more than we fear criminals?


25 posted on 05/14/2011 7:34:15 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

We are demanding police level restraint of soldiers in kill or be killed wars, and then jail them for being soldiers. We are allowing police to become soldiers, with authority to shoot first and ask questions later, to the detriment of society and the pile of innocent bodies they leave behind.


101 posted on 05/14/2011 5:02:43 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Great and correct analysis. This is a movement toward the 3rd world and away from American liberty.

The more laws the more offenders.


159 posted on 05/14/2011 9:18:51 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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